Comments on: 2009′s Worst Disclosures Buried in Footnotes http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/12/2009s-worst-footnote-filings-with-the-sec/ Macro Perspective on the Capital Markets, Economy, Geopolitics, Technology, and Digital Media Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:28:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: The Worst Footnote Disclosures of 2009 : Wiley Accounting Updates http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/12/2009s-worst-footnote-filings-with-the-sec/comment-page-1/#comment-244628 The Worst Footnote Disclosures of 2009 : Wiley Accounting Updates Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:45:38 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=46867#comment-244628 [...] SOURCES: Ritholtz, B. (2009). 2009’s Worst Disclosures Buried in Footnotes, BNET.com, December 21 (Retrievable online at http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/12/2009s-worst-footnote-filings-with-the-sec/) [...] [...] SOURCES: Ritholtz, B. (2009). 2009’s Worst Disclosures Buried in Footnotes, BNET.com, December 21 (Retrievable online at http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/12/2009s-worst-footnote-filings-with-the-sec/) [...]

]]> By: ToNYC http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/12/2009s-worst-footnote-filings-with-the-sec/comment-page-1/#comment-243458 ToNYC Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:37:53 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=46867#comment-243458 Schadenfreude postpones compassion. We all wish our profits were grossed up; but why isn't that taxed at 100% to keep it real? Schadenfreude postpones compassion. We all wish our profits were grossed up; but why isn’t that taxed at 100% to keep it real?

]]> By: catman http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/12/2009s-worst-footnote-filings-with-the-sec/comment-page-1/#comment-243381 catman Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:22:07 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=46867#comment-243381 OK I needed that gross up explaination too. Now how about a loose translation of chaza. Clicked thru the Chesapeake link since Aubrey is a neighbor of a friend and found the poor sap had to sell his 9000 bottle wine collection. That's 24 years worth at one a day. Oink. OK I needed that gross up explaination too. Now how about a loose translation of chaza. Clicked thru the Chesapeake link since Aubrey is a neighbor of a friend and found the poor sap had to sell his 9000 bottle wine collection. That’s 24 years worth at one a day. Oink.

]]> By: Mark E Hoffer http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/12/2009s-worst-footnote-filings-with-the-sec/comment-page-1/#comment-243378 Mark E Hoffer Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:16:35 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=46867#comment-243378 "A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not an article for mere consumption, but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital." — Thomas Jefferson http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1673?page=1 note: kindle e-books and SEC reports in XBRL need not apply.. “A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not an article for mere consumption, but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.”
— Thomas Jefferson

http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1673?page=1

note: kindle e-books and SEC reports in XBRL need not apply..

]]> By: Mannwich http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/12/2009s-worst-footnote-filings-with-the-sec/comment-page-1/#comment-243376 Mannwich Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:01:35 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=46867#comment-243376 @KevinM: It's when the company basically increases or "grosses up" one's gross payment to, in effect, pay the taxes on what that person would have been responsible for themselves. The result would be Ross Perot Jr. receiving a NET payment of $1.1 million instead of a gross payment of that same amount with net being much lower due to tax deductions. @KevinM: It’s when the company basically increases or “grosses up” one’s gross payment to, in effect, pay the taxes on what that person would have been responsible for themselves.

The result would be Ross Perot Jr. receiving a NET payment of $1.1 million instead of a gross payment of that same amount with net being much lower due to tax deductions.

]]> By: Advocatus Diaboli http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/12/2009s-worst-footnote-filings-with-the-sec/comment-page-1/#comment-243374 Advocatus Diaboli Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:51:58 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=46867#comment-243374 Maybe we have to change the way society sees money. Most scams, like fineprint BS, are made possible by a zero sum view of the world. Maybe we have to change the way society sees money. Most scams, like fineprint BS, are made possible by a zero sum view of the world.

]]> By: KevinM http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/12/2009s-worst-footnote-filings-with-the-sec/comment-page-1/#comment-243372 KevinM Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:40:02 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=46867#comment-243372 What is a "tax gross up"? What is a “tax gross up”?

]]> By: jc http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/12/2009s-worst-footnote-filings-with-the-sec/comment-page-1/#comment-243364 jc Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:00:11 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=46867#comment-243364 OT, Adam Sharp on unfolding CITI disaster.Tiny Tim holding for an eyewash paper gain on CITI while his IRS Dept takes $35B hit on special tax treatment for CITI. I really mean US taxpayers are taking $35B hit on CITI http://seekingalpha.com/article/179086-citigroup-take-the-loss-tim?source=email OT, Adam Sharp on unfolding CITI disaster.Tiny Tim holding for an eyewash paper gain on CITI while his IRS Dept takes $35B hit on special tax treatment for CITI. I really mean US taxpayers are taking $35B hit on CITI

http://seekingalpha.com/article/179086-citigroup-take-the-loss-tim?source=email

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